Nanosecond laser coupling for increased filament ablation

Laser filaments can project intensities sufficient to ablate materials at long ranges, but the clamping of a filament ’ s intensity to ∼ 10^14     W/cm^2 limits the effective ablation of targets with which the laser pulses interact. We seek to identify regimes in which ...

Source: Optics Letters - May 15, 2019 Category: Physics Authors: Haley Kerrigan Shermineh Rostami Fairchild Martin Richardson Source Type: research